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Basic, Inc. v. Levinson
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Class Action Lawsuit Defense
A Big Week for the Securities Bar: Amgen and Gabelli
Co-authored by: Marc D. Powers, Mark A. Kornfeld, and Jessie M Gabriel Editor’s Note: This Executive Alert was published by members of BakerHostetler’s Securities Litigation and Regulatory Enforcement Team and…
Corporate & Securities Law Blog
United States Supreme Court Holds that Class Action Securities Fraud Plaintiffs Need Not Prove the Materiality of the Alleged False Statements or Omissions to Support Certification of a Class, Resolving Circuit Split
In Amgen Inc. v. Connecticut Retirement Plans & Trust Funds, No. 11-1085, 2013 WL 691001 (U.S. Feb. 27, 2013), the United States Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the United…
Banking, Finance and Securities
United States Supreme Court Holds that Class Action Securities Fraud Plaintiffs Need Not Prove the Materiality of the Alleged False Statements or Omissions to Support Certification of a Class, Resolving Circuit Split
By John Landry, John Stigi, Steven Kramer
In Amgen Inc. v. Connecticut Retirement Plans & Trust Funds, No. 11-1085, 2013 WL 691001 (U.S. Feb. 27, 2013), the United States Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the United…
Class Action Lawsuit Defense
Amgen Argument Points Up Split in Supreme Court on Class Certification Versus Merits Issues
On November 5, 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court heard argument in Amgen, Inc. v. Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds, No. 1085, a securities class action, that concerned the ongoing…
D&O Discourse
Supreme Court Argument in Amgen
By Doug Greene
I attended the Supreme Court argument in Amgen yesterday. Law360 and the 10b-5 Daily, written by my former Wilson Sonsini partner Lyle Roberts (now at Cooley), have posted good summaries of…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Supreme Court Hears Argument on Proving Materiality in FOTM Class Action
The Supreme Court heard oral argument today in Amgen Inc. v. Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds, in which the parties debate whether in a securities fraud class action courts…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Supreme Court Will Consider Requirements for Class Certification in Securities Fraud Class Actions
On Nov. 5, 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Amgen Inc. v. Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds (No. 11-1085), a case that raises important questions…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Fisch on Price Distortion after Halliburton
The Trouble with Basic: Price Distortion after Halliburton, by Jill E. Fisch, University of Pennsylvania Law School - Institute for Law and Economics, was recently posted on SSRN. Here is…
Class Action Countermeasures
How to Get an Appellate Court’s Attention – The Amgen Certiorari Petition
By The Editors
As most of you following class action-related news know by now, the Supreme Court has granted certiorari to review another class action decision: the Ninth Circuit's recent opinion in Connecticut Retirement…
Class Action Countermeasures
Classic Cases – Kirkpatrick v. JC Bradford & Co
By The Editors
For fourteen years, from 1970 to 1984, more than 150,000 people bought stock in Petro-Lewis and its limited partnerships. Late in that period, the price of gas declined, and Petro-Lewis…